Amazon Web Services outage: What brought the internet down across the world for more than 15 hours

A massive 15-hour Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 crippled thousands of popular apps and websites globally, including banking, gaming, and government services. The disruption stemmed from a critical Domain Name System (DNS) issue in AWS’s primary US-EAST-1 data center, causing cascading failures. Experts highlight the need for companies to build better protection systems and emphasize that even minor infrastructure like DNS can cause widespread chaos.